March came in like a lamb here, and despite a little foreboding about its exit in four weeks, I was very glad to say good-bye to February.
I’m trying to think spring, despite the white stuff on the ground, so I’m putting my online Writing Camp for Teens on sale just in time for March/Spring Break. Please drop by here and check out the five days of activities that I’ve assembled for creative teens.
I’m very excited to be working on a new non-fiction project for genre writers. I hope to have at least one of the planned books ready by the end of March, so I can share it with you in my next blog. I’m working on books for sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, romance, and memoir authors, and enjoying every minute of creating these resources for you. Do you have a favourite genre that you like to read? Please drop a note in the comments. I’m a big mystery fan myself, but I do read some romance and fantasy, too.
Here are your writing prompts for March. I hope you have a creative month ahead!
Use one, some, or all the words in one of these groups to create a story or poem.
- Call, storm, run, lost, black, lightning
- Computer, message, unknown, threat, secret
- Hidden, treasure, capture, bluff, scarlet
- Distracted, danger, child, cry, flee, blunder
Here are some opening lines that might suggest a story or two.
- I don’t like it when he’s so quiet.
- That sound wasn’t thunder.
- I was down to my last ten minutes of battery power.
- The room on the other side of this wall was supposed to be empty.
- Just my luck!
- Sleet hammered the car windshield.
- No, I was not going to answer his text.
- Whoever said, “Cheaters never prosper,” never met Henry.
- Helen hadn’t meant to lie.
See if any of these titles inspire a story or poem: Blue Moon, No Dreams Left, What S/He Was Waiting For, Meadowland, Purple Dusk, Climbing to the Stars, Scary Dreams, The Last Planet, The Garden, The Remains, Ice Storm, Raven Song.
Here are some short scenes of dialogue. Can you imagine the rest of the scene?
I don’t want
to see you ever again.
Ever again is a long time
That’s what I’m counting on.
I’m sorry.
I wish I could believe you.
I have to
go.
Have to or want to?
I think you’ve already decided.
Should the clouds look like that?
No. We need shelter. Now.
Where?
Wishing you a writerly March!
